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Qué (quién) es FAVOUR - definición

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Favors; Favours; Favour; Favor (disambiguation); Favour (disambiguation); Favor (song); The Favor; The Favor (film)

favour         
(favours, favouring, favoured)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'favor'
1.
If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them.
It remains to be seen if the show will still find favour with a 1990s audience...
No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule...
He has won favour with a wide range of interest groups.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to.
I've come to ask you to do me a favour...
N-COUNT
3.
If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available.
The French say they favour a transition to democracy...
He favours bringing the UN into touch with 'modern realities'.
VERB: V n, V -ing
4.
If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people.
The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east...
VERB: V n
5.
If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts...
Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness...
The vote passed with 111 in favour and 25 against.
PHRASE: oft v-link PHR, PHR of n
6.
If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
If the commission rules in Mr Welch's favour the case will go to the European Court of Human Rights.
PHRASE: PHR after v
7.
If something is in your favour, it helps you or gives you an advantage.
Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.
PHRASE: n PHR, PHR after v, v-link PHR
8.
If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
PHRASE: PHR n, usu PHR after v
9.
If someone or something is in favour, people like or support them. If they are out of favour, people no longer like or support them.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
favour         
see favor
favour         
(US favor)
¦ noun
1. approval or liking.
unfair preferential treatment.
archaic a thing such as a badge that is given or worn as a mark of favour or support.
2. an act of kindness beyond what is due or usual.
(one's favours) dated a woman's consent to a man having sexual intercourse with her.
3. (also party favor) N. Amer. a small inexpensive gift given to party guests.
¦ verb
1. regard or treat with favour.
give unfairly preferential treatment to.
work to the advantage of.
2. (favour someone with) give someone (something desired).
3. informal resemble (a relative) in facial features.
Phrases
in favour of
1. to be replaced by.
2. in support or to the advantage of.
Derivatives
favourer noun
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. favor, from favere 'show kindness to'.

Wikipedia

Favor

Favor or Favour (see spelling differences), also favors may refer to:

Ejemplos de uso de FAVOUR
1. Not in favour 61% In favour 31% Don‘t know enough about it 8% To what extent are you in favour of school admissions based on a banding system?
2. They are neither in favour of flat rejectionism on the Palestinian side, nor in favour of blunt unilateralism in Israel.
3. Only about 15% favour unification or independence.
4. MP3 players favour personal playlists or shuffling.
5. "We need a big cultural change in favour of fatherhood, in favour of parenting, in favour of marriage." "I think this is absolutely the big question, the big argument of our times.